Top 3 Linux HTML editors

This post is dedicated to quality html editors for Linux and Ubuntu operating system in particular. You may think that nowadays nobody uses offline editors as there are so many content management systems (CMS) like Drupal (my favourite one), WordPress, Joomla etc. which contain embedded visual html editors. But today I made sure myself that sometimes it’s real pain to draw a 10×20 table using WordPress’s editor…

Text editors like gedit, emacs, nano or vi will certainly live forever but thankfully there are numerous visual html editors for my Ubuntu They are sometimes called WYSIWYG editors, it mean “What You See Is What You Get”.

This is KDE/Qt visual html editor available as binary package for numerous Linux distributions
including Debian and Ubuntu. From developers’ site:

Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment.
The vision with Quanta has always been to start with the best architectural
foundations, design for efficient and natural use and enable maximal user
extensibility.

In order to install it in Debian/Ubuntu run the following CLI command:

sudo apt-get install quanta

Fedora, Centos, Redhat users type this:

sudo yum install kdewebdev

I found Quanta html editor extremely useful, this is just an outstanding application of this
field.

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners,
with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish
supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing
dynamic and interactive websites.

SCREEM is a web development environment. It’s purpose is to increase
productivity when constructing a site, by providing quick access to commonly
used features. While it is written for use with the GNOME desktop environment
in mind it does not specifically require you to be running it, just have the
libraries installed.

This is one of the most user-friendly Gnome HTML editor. Its simple interface
brings extremely powerfull HTML editor so if like minimalistic design Screem
is your choice.

If you use GNOME, use Screem. It’s a fast, simple, and powerful tool for web editing. However, it does not have the large feature sets that Bluefish and Quanta Plus have, especially for languages other than those directly related to Web page editing.

If you use GNOME and need the more powerful features of Quanta Plus, load the required libraries and run it.

If you use KDE and want a code editor, choose Quanta Plus. Ignore the WYSIWYG capabilities and take advantage of the tremendous editing capabilities, especially for CSS style sheets.

If you use Xfce, Quanta Plus should run fine. Screem would still require loading additional libraries.

Finally, if you use GNOME, find that Screem does not meet all your needs, and you don’t want to bother with loading the KDE-native Quanta Plus, then load Bluefish. It is nearly as capable as Quanta Plus, but will run well without a lot of fussing with libraries.

*WARNING* - Long line lengths (100+ chars.) can trigger a slow-down due to memory hogging. If you have to edit a generated HTML file with super-long lines (all it takes is ONE !) bust up those lines down to one tag per line.

Other HTML editors -

Netscape / Mozilla's Composer is still around in some distro's (e.g. SUSE 10 Book). Also, there is a version in the SeaMonkey bundle. Another variant of this venerable beast is nVu which came from the people behind Lindows / Linspire.

If you like behemoths then take a look at Komodo Edit ( http://www.activestate.com/ ) or Eclipse ( http://www.eclipse.org/ ). Komodo is a monster with a great set of teeth for chewing on a variety of programming projects. Komodo Edit is the free version of Komodo IDE.

If you are something of a masochist then use the HTML editor in OpenOffice's Writer.

NB - I've had all of the above installed on my main rigs (SUSE 9.1 Box / 10 Book) at various times. My current mix is Amaya / Bluefish (#1 in usage) / Composer / Komodo Edit / nVu / Quanta + / SeaMonkey. I haven't tried Screem but then again I usually use KDE3.x instead of Gnome.

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